By: DNA Magazine Australia
Despite the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTIQ policies and rhetoric, his campaign has launched Pride Make America Great Again (MAGA) merchandise.
Despite the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTIQ policies and rhetoric, his campaign has launched Pride Make America Great Again (MAGA) merchandise.
The merchandise
(available from the Trump website) is an apparent attempt to cash-in on a
community he vowed to support prior to taking office but has instead attacked.
Whether it be
banning transgender people in the military to expanding religious exemptions
for employers, business owners, and even doctors who want to discriminate
against LGBTIQ people, to consulting anti-LGBTIQ hate group leaders on policy,
to attempting to change the legal definition of “sex” to erase transgender
people, Trump has proven he is no friend of our community.
As reported
by NewNowNext the
merchandise includes a white T-shirt that reads Make America Great Again in
rainbow colours with a description that says, “Show your support for the LGBT
community and the 45th President with this exclusive Make America Great Again
T-Shirt.”
Unsurprisingly
the response to the merchandise has pointed to Trump’s hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy aside, members
of the LGBTIQ community are not typical Trump voters.
NBC News reports LGBTIQ
voters have been a reliable part of the Democratic voting base. According to
exit polls, 78 percent of LGBTIQ votes went to Hillary Clinton in 2016, and in
2018, 82 per cent of LGBTIQ voters backed a Democratic candidate for the US
House Of Representatives.
Some LGBTIQ
voters do identify as part of Trump’s base, including some members of the Log
Cabin Republicans, a gay conservative group that faced internal turmoil earlier
this year after some of its leadership endorsed Trump’s re-election.
Trump — who banned trans troops, is against LGBT employment protections, wants ppl to be able to turn away LGBT customers, & is denying citizenship to kids of US gay couples born out of wedlock — is selling LGBTQ for Trump shirts for Pride https://t.co/LcfzYb6oF9 via @NewNowNext pic.twitter.com/QAG6M7tlxJ— David Mack (@davidmackau) 23 de mayo de 2019
Charles Moran, the
national spokesperson for the Log Cabin Republicans, said that LGBTIQ
merchandise in Trump’s campaign store is nothing new and that he’s had some
form of it since Trump started running, but he says the fact that the Make
American Great Again Pride hat in the store is currently sold out is what’s
telling.
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